NSA Ajit Doval: The James Bond of India Turns 75

Current National Security Advisor (NSA) to Prime Minister of India, Ajit Doval was born on January 20, 1945, in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand. He is a retired Indian Police Services (IPS) officer of the Kerala cadre and a former Indian intelligence and law enforcement, officer. He was prestigiously awarded a gallantry award for military personnel, the Kirti Chakra meritorious service and he was the youngest police officer to receive this.

He started the police career in the year 1968 as an IPS officer and he has engaged actively in the anti-insurgency operations in Punjab and Mizoram. In 1999, he was one of the three negotiators to release the passengers from hijacked IC-814 in Kandahar. He successfully accomplished at least fifteen hijackings of Indian Airlines aircraft between 1971 and 1999.

It is said that he was the Indian spy who spent seven years in Pakistan, gathered secret information on active militant groups. After a constant one year involvement of an undercover agent, he worked at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad for six years.

Doval had also played a key role in gathering intelligence for 'Operation Blue Star' to choke Khalistani militancy in 1984. He went to Kashmir in 1990 and convinced hardcore militants and troops to become counter-insurgents, clearing the way for Jammu & Kashmir elections in 1996.

He worked mostly as an active field Intelligence officer with the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in his career and won prestigious awards and honors for his bravery. He was highly esteemed for being actively part of important operations and taking a stand against terrorism and militancy.

He became the founder-director of Vivekananda International Foundation right after his retirement in 2009.

Doval claimed to release the 46 Indian nurses who were trapped in a hospital in Tikrit, Iraq in 2014. He flew to Iraq on June 25, 2014, on an undercover operation in order to apprehend the ground position and connect on high-level with Iraq Government. On 5th July 2014, the nurses were successfully brought back to India.

Later, Doval also headed a successful military operation in Myanmar along with the Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag against the National Socialist Council of Nagaland militants operating out of Myanmar.

He actively supervised the September 2016 India's Surgical Strike and February 2019 Balakot airstrikes across the Pakistan Border. He was also responsible to put an end to the Doklam stand-off and took crucial steps in tackling the insurgency in the Northeast.

In 2019, Doval was reappointed as National Security Advisor for five more years and given a Cabinet rank in the second term of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.

Ajit Doval Turns 75 today:

As today is the birthday of India's James Bond, Twitter is flooded with birthday wishes and greeting for him.

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